Mar 20
The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape, by Laura Allen, ISBN 9781612121697 Laura Allen was one of three women who founded the Greywater Guerrillas more than ten years ago, long before the current drought. They went to plumbing classes, devoured everything written on the subject, boned up …
Jan 23
It took a lot of stumbles on my part and a heap of patience on the part of the professionals at ACX, the Audiobook Exchange, but the second audiobook edition of my book Empowering Your Sober Self is now up and available. This edition updates my perspective on the LifeRing pathway to addiction recovery. The original …
Nov 23
The second edition of my book, Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery, is now off the press and on sale via lifering.com. The text of this second edition corrects several typographical errors. The worst of these was the inexcusable misspelling of the last name of Jean Kirkpatrick, founder of Women for …
Nov 23
Ursula LeGuin’s acceptance speech upon winning the National Book Award, 2014: To the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks, from the heart. My family, my agents, my editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as my own, and that the beautiful reward is theirs as much as mine. And I …
Jul 10
While Germany dismantled Brazil on the futebol grass, Israel demolished the houses of Palestinian families in Gaza — and my attention, like much of the world’s, was focused on the soccer game. In the article below, originally published by Al Jazeera English, Prof. Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University in New York asks why is that. Excellent question. …
Apr 14
Substitute teachers, like plumbers and emergency room doctors, don’t see systems at their best. Crap and blood everywhere is their normal. Worse, subs are generally not appreciated. People usually thank plumbers and doctors. In the average classroom, when the sub walks in, the devils leap with joy. Tom Gallagher’s new book, Sub: My Years Underground …
Apr 11
Treatises on education are often ordeals of blurry thinking, but no such complaint can be leveled against Diane Ravitch’s latest. From the title — Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools — to the final paragraph, Ravitch marshals her arguments and her evidence in clear declarative sentences. …
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